80 features a wide spherical needle designed to minimize record wear making it good for scratching and back cueing without the worry of vinyl damage.
Ortofon good for preserving vinyl.
The ortofon 2m bronze produces clear sound without even a slight buzz at any frequencies.
Maybe you re fanatical about the condition of your vinyl or maybe you have a super rare or valuable disc and you don t want to endanger your investment.
No one appears to have done a double blind listener test comparing vinyl to cds but there is a good study from florida state s john.
It requires between three and five grams of weight for optimal tracking.
The ortofon om pro s appx.
Ortofon also makes numerous moving coil mc cartridges which are better at preserving accuracy and sound quality but also more expensive.
It allows hearing all the sound features of various instruments guitar saxophone drums piano and others getting a chance to become the best phono cartridge under 500 for vinyl records lovers.
That said the company s entry level 2m series cartridges are still very good which is why some of the biggest turntable manufactures have chosen to use them.
It does a really good job of preserving information.
Firstly you may want to preserve a particular disc and retain the sound quality of that disc.
Generally the best value lower cost cartridges are of a mm design.
There are cheap mc designs out there but they generally sound poor.
Ortofon is the world s leading cartridge specialist and one stop supplier of phono cartridges.
Turntable cartridges the stylus also known as a needle in particular wear down through use eventually these parts must be replaced to maintain top sonic performance especially if you have one of the best turntables available periodically changing the stylus will also help preserve the integrity of your growing collection of vinyl records which can become scratched or damaged from.
For budget purposes mm cartridges offer far better value.
Ortofon was established in 1918 by the two danish engineers axel petersen and arnold poulsen.